From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 8 13:39:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B344837B42C for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 13:39:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA23489 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 16:39:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA01227 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 16:36:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id G0L5E600.9EH; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 16:39:42 -0400 Message-ID: <39B94E66.30FCF759@mitre.org> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 16:39:03 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Turner Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP: can't install ports packages References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000908161205.00afd680@mail.johnturner.com> <4.3.2.7.0.20000908163124.00afdba8@mail.johnturner.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Turner wrote: > > Thanks for the quick reply. The machine is 4.0-RELEASE. I've installed > the 4.0 to 4-stable upgrade kit from http://www.freebsd.org/ports using > pkg_add and it shows as installed. > > Unfortunately, upgrading to 4.1 and doing the whole buildworld thing is not > an option at the moment. Is there something else I can try? Hmm, if you used the upgrade port to 4-STABLE then your .mk files are probably good. The only other think I can think of is to be sure your ports are up to date, IE you didn't accidentally ask for a cvsup from 3 years ago or something. Perhaps someone else can help you more with this problem. Sorry. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message